Francois Mauriac Quotes

France, Novelist
October 11, 1885 – September, 1, 1970.

François Charles Mauriac (French: [moʁjak]; 11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952). He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958. He was a life-long Catholic.

Also known as Dramatist, Critic, Poet, Journalist

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

Francois Mauriac
- Great
- Men
Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

Francois Mauriac

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

Francois Mauriac
- True
I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.

Francois Mauriac
- Hope
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

Francois Mauriac
- Miracle
Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

Francois Mauriac
- Children
- Discipline